A review by craftygoat
Unleashing Your Dog: A Field Guide to Giving Your Canine Companion the Best Life Possible by Jessica Pierce, Marc Bekoff

4.0

Mixed feelings on this one. The intro was eye-opening to me in its exploration of the relationship between humans and their pet dogs. I hoped the book would have concrete tips on how to better support the freedoms of my pets... but in many ways it was lacking. Some stuff was too complex (i.e. making ethograms, which it refers you to other books to learn how to develop). On the flip side, a lot of the advice seemed very basic -- things you maybe shouldn't need to include in a book like this (i.e. protect your dog from noises it doesn't like, only touch dogs when they want to be touched, let dogs sniff their surroundings, etc.). And there were so many times that he said "more research is needed" on this or that, which is not something that's helpful for me to read - I'm not planning on doing that research! There were enough things that were helpful to me that I'd recommend it, though.